KINGSTON — A New Paltz man was sentenced to seven years in prison and five years of post-release supervision Wednesday for a burglary last summer.

Around 5:45 a.m. on July 21, an elderly woman woke up to find 40-year-old Eduardo Balbuena crouched at the foot of her bed wearing a black ski mask and latex gloves, said the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. When she woke up, he tried to flee the apartment, but she ran after him, grabbed his mask, and recognized him as the maintenance man at their complex, Southside Terrace Apartments, the DA’s office said. Her husband, who has Parkinson’s Disease, tried to help her but fell.

The couple lived in Florida but had rented the apartment in New Paltz for the summer. The woman had met Balbuena the night before, when he helped her with her husband, who had fallen.